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Bradford 0-1 Reading - March 22, 2003 / First Division 2002/2003

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First Division 2002/2003 - Round 39

Valley Parade - Bradford - England

March 22, 2003

11 385

Bradford

0 - 1

Reading

66'

Nicky Forster

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45' - Red card Nathan Tyson

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66' - Goal Nicky Forster

67' - Substitution John Salakois substituted by Sammy Igoe

70' - Substitution Danny Forrestis substituted by Ben Muirhead70

75' - Substitution Paul Reidis substituted by Michael Standing75

89' - Substitution Nicky Forsteris substituted by Darius Henderson

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Bradford

0 - 1

Reading

Bradford Reading

Team line-ups

Bradford

Davison

Aidan Davison

Northern Ireland

B.date11/05/1968

Age34 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Wetherall

David Wetherall

England

B.date14/03/1971

Age32 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

Bower

Mark Bower

England

B.date23/01/1980

Age23 years

H1m78

positionCentral defender

Reid75

Paul Reid

Australia

B.date06/07/1979

Age23 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Atherton

Peter Atherton

England

B.date06/04/1970

Age32 years

H1m80

positionRight full-back

Francis

Simon Francis

England

B.date16/02/1985

Age18 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

Forrest70

Danny Forrest

England

B.date23/10/1984

Age18 years

H1m81

positionRight Midfielder

Lawrence

James Lawrence

Jamaica

B.date08/03/1970

Age33 years

H1m78

positionRight Midfielder

Jorgensen

Claus Bech Jorgensen

Faroe Islands

B.date20/04/1976

Age26 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Gray

Andy Gray

Scotland

B.date15/11/1977

Age25 years

H1m85

positionStriker

Uhlenbeek

Gus Uhlenbeek

Netherlands

B.date20/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m76

positionRight Winger

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Aidan Davison		34	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	David Wetherall		32	94	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mark Bower		23	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Paul Reid	75	23	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Peter Atherton		32	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Simon Francis		18	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Danny Forrest	70	18	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	James Lawrence		33	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Claus Bech Jorgensen		26	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Andy Gray		25	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Gus Uhlenbeek		32	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Reading

Hahnemann

Marcus Hahnemann

United States

B.date15/06/1972

Age30 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

Newman

Ricky Newman

England

B.date05/08/1970

Age32 years

H1m78

positionRight central defender

Viveash

Adrian Viveash

England

B.date30/09/1969

Age33 years

H1m86

positionCentral defender

Brown

Steve Brown

England

B.date13/05/1972

Age30 years

positionDefender

Shorey

Nicky Shorey

England

B.date19/02/1981

Age22 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

Murty

Graeme Murty

Scotland

B.date13/11/1974

Age28 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

Salako67

John Salako

England

B.date11/02/1969

Age34 years

H1m75

positionLeft Midfielder

Hughes

Andy Hughes

England

B.date02/01/1978

Age25 years

H1m80

positionRight Midfielder

Harper

James Harper

England

B.date09/11/1980

Age22 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

Forster6689

Nicky Forster

England

B.date08/09/1973

Age29 years

H1m73

positionStriker

Tyson45

Nathan Tyson

England

B.date04/05/1982

Age20 years

H1m83

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Marcus Hahnemann		30	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Ricky Newman		32	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Adrian Viveash		33	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Steve Brown		30	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Nicky Shorey		22	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Graeme Murty		28	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	John Salako	67	34	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Andy Hughes		25	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	James Harper		22	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nicky Forster	6689	29	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Nathan Tyson	45	20	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Michael Standing	75	22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	M		Ben Muirhead	70	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes					Age	Match num	Note
	M		Sammy Igoe	67	27	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
	F		Darius Henderson	89	21	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Paul Reid

Lewis Emanuel

OUT

Danny Forrest

Ashley Ward

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

John Salako

Steve Sidwell

OUT

Ricky Newman

Luke Chadwick

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Nicky Law

Success rate in this team:

30 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Law vs Reading

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 22, 2003

Law vs Pardew

1 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on March 22, 2003

Manager

Age

Match num

Alan Pardew

190

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Pardew vs Bradford

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on March 22, 2003

Pardew vs Law

2 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on March 22, 2003

Referee

Scott Mathieson

7 victories	6 draws	9 losses	Bradford22 matches	General total	Reading7 matches	4 victories	1 draw	2 losses
0 victory	0 draw	2 losses	Bradford2 matches	Season total	Reading2 matches	2 victories	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on April 25, 2015					Latest figure on March 01, 2014

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Key figures

Reading keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal scored away from home running (since 05/03/2003).

No Reading manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Alan Pardew has reached 40% of clean sheets .

End of streak for Bradford after 4 consecutive matches without a loss (since 04/03/2003). It was the best streak for the club since 27/10/2001-20/11/2001 (6 matches).

Read the next 12 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VBradford 2-0 Ipswich Town01/02/2003

LBradford 0-1 Brighton & Hove15/02/2003

LBradford 1-2 Walsall01/03/2003

DBradford 0-0 Leicester04/03/2003

VBradford 2-1 Crystal Palace08/03/2003

DBradford 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday18/03/2003

Overall

VCoventry 0-2 Bradford22/02/2003

LBradford 1-2 Walsall01/03/2003

DBradford 0-0 Leicester04/03/2003

VBradford 2-1 Crystal Palace08/03/2003

VDerby County 1-2 Bradford15/03/2003

DBradford 1-1 Sheffield Wednesday18/03/2003

Current form

Away

VBurnley 2-5 Reading01/02/2003

VMillwall 0-2 Reading15/02/2003

VSheffield United 1-3 Reading18/02/2003

LWimbledon FC 2-0 Reading01/03/2003

VNorwich City 0-1 Reading05/03/2003

LIpswich Town 3-1 Reading18/03/2003

Overall

VReading 3-0 Rotherham United22/02/2003

LWimbledon FC 2-0 Reading01/03/2003

VNorwich City 0-1 Reading05/03/2003

LReading 0-1 Wolverhampton12/03/2003

VReading 2-1 Crystal Palace15/03/2003

LIpswich Town 3-1 Reading18/03/2003

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	3	4
Winless streak	1	1
Scoring streak	2	3
Conceding streak	2	3

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	7	11
Scoring streak	2	2
Conceding streak	1	3

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

37	Number of games (Competition total)	38
19	Number of games (Home / Away)	19
12	Victories (Competition total)	20
6	Victories (Home / Away)	10
10	Draws (Competition total)	4
8	Draws (Home / Away)	1
15	Losses (Competition total)	14
5	Losses (Home / Away)	8

Goals

45	Goals scored (Competition total)	48
25	Goals scored (Home / Away)	24
57	Goals conceded (Competition total)	38
27	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	21
1.22	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.26
1.32	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.26
1.54	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
1.42	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.11

Betting aid

21	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	7
8	Clean sheets (Competition total)	16
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	9
12	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	12
6	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
21	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	13
11	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
0-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	1-0 (5 times)

Bookings

80	Yellow cards (Competition total)	57
38	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	33
7	Red cards (Competition total)	2
4	Red cards (Home / Away)	1

Key players

Andy Gray	13 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	12 goals	Nicky Forster
Andy Gray	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	7 goals	Nicky Forster
Andy Gray	4 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	2 penalties	Jamie Cureton
Andy Gray	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Jamie Cureton
Andy Gray	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Nicky Forster

Historical head to head

Home

16 matches

11 v

3 d

2 l

35 gf

17 ga

Away

18 matches

6 v

9 d

3 l

23 gf

16 ga

Total

34 matches

17 v

12 d

5 l

58 gf

33 ga

Historical head to head

Home

18 matches

3 v

9 d

6 l

16 gf

23 ga

Away

16 matches

2 v

3 d

11 l

17 gf

35 ga

Total

34 matches

5 v

12 d

17 l

33 gf

58 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 1	December 06, 1930
Home	6 - 1	December 06, 1930

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 2	May 04, 1985
Away	5 - 2	May 04, 1985

Latest head to head

October 29, 2002 - First Division 2002/2003

Reading

1 - 0

Bradford

September 22, 1999 - League Cup 1999/2000

Reading

2 - 2

Bradford

September 14, 1999 - League Cup 1999/2000

Bradford

1 - 1

Reading

January 27, 1998 - First Division 1997/1998

Bradford

4 - 1

Reading

August 30, 1997 - First Division 1997/1998

Reading

0 - 3

Bradford

Best historical scorers against Reading

Robbie Blake	1 goal	1999 - 1999
Dean Saunders	1 goal	1999 - 1999
David Wetherall	1 goal	1999 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 14/09/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Bradford

Barry Hunter	1 goal	1999 - 1999
Nicky Shorey	1 goal	2002 - 2002
Darren Caskey	1 goal	1999 - 1999
Keith Scott	1 goal	1999 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 14/09/1999. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Reading

Andy Myers	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Wayne Jacobs	3 matches	1996 - 2002
John Dreyer	2 matches	1996 - 1999
Dean Windass	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Gareth Whalley	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Dean Saunders	2 matches	1999 - 1999

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/12/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Bradford

Nicky Forster	3 matches	1999 - 2002
Darren Caskey	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Andrew Bernal	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Chris Casper	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Stuart Gray	2 matches	1999 - 1999
Jim Crawford	2 matches	1999 - 1999